Exciting event featuring Em-i-lis

Have you always wanted to learn more about canning and preservation? Has my enthusiasm for canning gotten you interested? I thought so! Get psyched then, and mark your calendars for Saturday, July 14. I'll be teaching a canning seminar at Strosnider's in Bethesda that morning and would love to see you there. Details will follow soon. In the meantime, can I just vent a little bit about the fact that I've been waiting almost an hour to see the derm?! My right hand and forearm are covered in spots from some damn yard pest, and I need the once-over to make sure all is well and will fade. Have you seen Disney's The Sword In the Stone, circa a long time ago? I love it. Anyway, I look like Mad Madam Mim, the bad witch.

Here with Food in Jars

Not only did I just purchase an insane amount of fresh fava beans, enjoy a strawberry-ginger-lemonade Popsicle and spy tons more stuff I must have, but I am also sitting not three feet from Marisa McClellan, canning guru of Food in Jars blog fame. Bought her gorgeous cookbook too!!

Exciting event at Dupont farmers market

Sunday, June 3The writer of foodinjars (terrific canning site; you can link to it from my blogroll) will be doing a demo and discussing her new book at the Dupont farmers market!!